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South India gets 1st BrahMos armed Sukhoi squad to guard Indian Ocean Region

The BrahMos cruise missile travels at a speed of Mach 2.8, nearly three times that of soundThe Su-30 MKI aircraft, along with the BrahMos will be a game-changer and extensively enhance the security of the maritime domain

4 min read20 Jan 2020
News

Watch: Astra missile successfully flight tested from Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jet

The Astra missile has a 15-kg high-explosive pre-fragmented warheadThe Astra missile is a beyond visual range missile

1 min read18 Sep 2019
Politics

Indigenous Sukhoi-30MKI costlier than Russian SU-30 as specifications not same: Govt

The minister said that being a transfer of technology (ToT) programme, cost is involved towards payment of license fee to the Russian side.

1 min read2 Jan 2019
Politics

Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman undertakes sortie in Sukhoi

Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman took off in the Indian Air Force's frontline combat jet Sukhoi 30 MKI from the air base in Jodhpur

1 min read18 Jan 2018
Politics

20 IAF jets participate in touchdown drill on Lucknow-Agra Expressway

Fighter and transport aircraft of IAF, including Mirage-2000 fighters and Sukhoi 30s, besides 35,000 kg C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, perform touch-and-go landings on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway

1 min read24 Oct 2017
Politics

IAF's Sukhoi-30 jet crash: Black box recovered

The black box of the Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jet that went missing with two pilots on board has been recovered from a dense forest in Arunachal Pradesh

1 min read28 May 2017
Politics

IAF's Sukhoi-30 search operation hit by bad weather

An IAF official says search operation for missing Sukhoi-30 is continuing despite bad weather in parts of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh where the plane is suspected to have crashed

1 min read24 May 2017
Politics

China says no information on IAF's missing Sukhoi-30 with 2 pilots on board

China says it has no information on the missing IAF's Sukhoi fighter jet with 2 pilots on board, asks India to stick to the arrangements reached between the two sides to maintain peace

1 min read24 May 2017
Politics

Seven Sukhoi-30 planes crashed since induction into IAF in 1997

A Sukhoi-30 MKI with two pilots on board went missing near Tezpur in Assam during a routine training mission yesterday

1 min read24 May 2017
Politics

Indian Air Force to participate in Red Flag exercise with NATO forces

Four Sukhoi-30MKIs, four Jaguars, two C-17 Globemaster III transport planes and two mid-air refuellers Ilyushin-78 will go to the US for air combat exercise

1 min read3 Apr 2016